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Ok... so my copy and paste of the article from the Journal Star didn't take the first time....
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/021408/TRI_BFPDTMJF.063.php
Time to grade District 150 principals?
School Board wants to evaluate leaders based on performance when it comes to pay increases
Thursday, February 14, 2008
BY DAVE HANEY
OF THE JOURNAL STAR
PEORIA - Increasing reading or math scores by certain percentage points and cutting truancy or dropout rates may determine whether or how much of a raise School District 150 principals could receive come the start of the next school year.
Officials say the move - from salary increases tied to what the teachers' union bargains and receives annually to one based on performance and held to particular goals - will provide more focus at each of the district's more than 30 schools and programs.
"The Board of Education wants more accountability," District 150 Superintendent Ken Hinton said of the proposed performance-based contracts that will be implemented with the hiring of new principals at Manual and Richwoods high schools in the coming months but also may affect all principals beginning this fall.
Not all goals will be tied to student achievement, both Hinton and board members are quick to point out, noting parental involvement and teacher and student morale likely will be as much a part of the evaluating process as will recommendations from the superintendent.
But Hinton admits academic performance is under the microscope nationwide. "With (No Child Left Behind) it became ever more important," he said this week.
The board on Monday is expected to vote on the new policy, removing principals from the current method of compensation. School officials say the actual tool used to evaluate principals, however, likely won't come until later this summer.
The performance-based concept is certainly nothing new nor individual to District 150.
Bob Hall, chairman of the Educational Leadership Department at Western Illinois University, said the practice, long held for superintendents, illustrates "natural progression" by expanding such evaluation to principals and represents a school district more or less saying "this is what we expect."
The District 150 board in 2006 told the administration it wanted to introduce the performance-based raises for principals, but that process has been delayed.
Board member Debbie Wolfmeyer, who has pushed for the new evaluation tool, said Monday during a school committee meeting she didn't want to see principals handed raises without any evaluations, which she said took place last year.
Principals and other school-level administrators, such as assistant principals and deans, traditionally get the same raises as teachers. As of August, that raise was a 1 percent increase to base salary. The average annual salary for a District 150 principal, excluding the alternative schools and adult education programs, is about $88,500.
The principal evaluation, board members say, would consist of a checklist of sorts, involving a number rating system for several criteria such as attitude and morale within the school as well as raw data, test scores and other information - attendance, truancy, dropout rates - from preceding years.
Goals also will have to be in place at the start of the school year. Still to be determined is when to begin. Some school officials have mentioned the performance-based evaluation should be phased in while others say all the district's principals should follow such parameters this fall.
"In my mind, the principal is the one who sets the tone for expectations in the building," board member Jim Stowell said. "It's really a great opportunity for principals, and hopefully, ultimately, teachers alike, to be compensated extra for extra effort."
Dave Haney can be reached at 686-3181 or dhaney@pjstar.com.
I think it makes since. It really pushes the principal for results. I think this puts the title "Instructional Leader" in a new perspective.
i think it should be (as a person that doesnt want to be a principal) tied to school performance. our principals raises are based on the teachers union bargaining and i dont think it should be. the principals should be held to their own standard.
nice Dr. Hall quote :-)
I think that it makes sense to base raises on performance, that is what happens in alot of other fields. The only thing that would be a little scary to me is I would want a little more control over things like who gets hired and fired and on things like what resources get cut and added.
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